[Info-vax] ZIP and UNZIP maximum file size

[JF Mezei]

Lester Dreckow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just wondering, now that Zip 3.0 and Unzip 6.0 support file sizes
> larger than 2GB, do we know what the upper limit is?


If zip operations are sequential in nature, than I would *assume* that
max file size would be operating system dependent.

If zip perform "seek" operations on the file, then the size of pointers
would provide some limit on file size (aka: 4 gig for 32 bit pointers)